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9.18.2012

NAT NESTS: VEGETARIAN COCONUT CURRY

now that it is fall, my kitchen has started to look at me funny.

last night we had a few friends over for homemade pizza. one of our friends, who is living in a loft studio in a cute little old brownstone in a way radder neighborhood than ours, took one step into my kitchen and said "i am getting vertigo from all the space in here! wait! is vertigo the opposite of claustrophobia?"

so now my kitchen is getting all these ideas.

so i cracked open a few cans of coconut milk for a big old pot of curry. and then i figured i should share the recipe, since my nat nests tag has also been giving me the wonk-eye lately.

we like our curry really, really chunky.

sautee minced garlic and a few tablespoons of olive oil in a big old pot.

add half a yellow onion.

chop your vegetables. we like carrots, baby potatoes, and celery,

four of each or so.

cook vegetables in pot until softened, stirring occasionally.

season with salt, pepper, and as much yellow curry powder as you can stand.

i don't actually have any idea how much i usually use.

add two cans of coconut milk (we like lite coconut milk, let's not get crazy here),

a cup or so of frozen peas, and some seasoned, grilled extra firm tofu, if tofu is your bag of chips.

so yummy! I spent a semester in Thailand and it was seriously coconut curry HEAVEN. Husband only likes it a little bit, so I can't make it too much. BUT OH MAN it's one of my favorite things! I bought a big tub of curry paste from Chinatown a while back and use it instead of curry powder, because it goes a LOT further, and OH MY FOODGASM it's fantastic. I love that you make yours stew-y, sounds amazing.

Great idea -- tomorrow! I've never used yellow curry (I'll have to try it), but we love green and musaman (I'm sure that's spelled wrong!) curry, and the kids always eat it. Which you might not expect them to, being vegetables and curry and all.

That sounds so good! I'm vegetarian but hate tofu, so I'm probably just going to double up the vegetables, and add some cashews to add a tiny bit of protein (and awesomeness, because cashews are where it's at!)